(Also without hyphen.) [UP prep.2]
1. adv. In, to, or into the higher or upper part of a town, or (U.S.) the residential portion of a town or city.
1855. Clarke, Uptown, up the town.
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., vii. I had heard of Miss Havisham up town.
1883. Century Mag., Oct., 856/2. The current of domestic life … then flowed onward up-town.
1899. J. L. Williams, Stolen Story, etc., 30. Two … told me about it uptown at dinner.
2. adj. Situated or dwelling up-town; of or pertaining to the upper (also, U.S., residential) part of a town.
1838. J. L. Stephens, Trav. Greece, I. 83. Even I,… a quondam speculator in ‘up-town lots.’
1859. Habits of Gd. Society, v. 192. So universal is insolence in America,… even in what is called good society—the ‘up-town’ sets.
1883. Century Mag., Oct., 857/2. The course of the up-town movement at first included Broadway.
